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class="infobox-caption"><i>The Christian Recorder</i>, August 2020</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Type</th><td class="infobox-data">Monthly newspaper</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Owner(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/African_Methodist_Episcopal_Church" title="African Methodist Episcopal Church">African Methodist Episcopal Church</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publisher</th><td class="infobox-data">Roderick D. Belin</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Editor</th><td class="infobox-data agent">John Thomas III</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">July 1,1852<span class="noprint">; 172 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">July 1,1852</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data label">1722 Scovel Street<br />Nashville, TN 37208</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:1050-6039">1050-6039</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> number</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14096028">14096028 </a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thechristianrecorder.com/">www<wbr />.thechristianrecorder<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>The Christian Recorder</b></i> is the official newspaper of the <a href="/wiki/African_Methodist_Episcopal_Church" title="African Methodist Episcopal Church">African Methodist Episcopal Church</a> and is the oldest continuously published <a href="/wiki/African-American_newspaper" class="mw-redirect" title="African-American newspaper">African-American newspaper</a> in the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-CR16_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CR16-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It has been called "arguably the most powerful black periodical of the nineteenth century," a time when there were few sources for news and information about Black communities.<sup id="cite_ref-cohen_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cohen-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-AAR_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AAR-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cover_of_The_Christian_Recorder.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cover_of_The_Christian_Recorder.png/220px-Cover_of_The_Christian_Recorder.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="294" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cover_of_The_Christian_Recorder.png/330px-Cover_of_The_Christian_Recorder.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cover_of_The_Christian_Recorder.png/440px-Cover_of_The_Christian_Recorder.png 2x" data-file-width="2028" data-file-height="2708" /></a><figcaption><i>The Christian Recorder</i>, March 1894</figcaption></figure> <p><i>The Recorder</i> covered secular as well as religious news, and reported news of the black regiments serving in the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">Civil War</a>. It advocated support for Union troops.<sup id="cite_ref-AAR_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AAR-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-AA2020_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AA2020-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was also known for having an Information Wanted section, where Black families who had been forcibly separated in the slave trade could seek news about their missing loved ones.<sup id="cite_ref-IA2020_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IA2020-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The paper's coverage included birth, marriage, and death notices. </p><p>It also featured music, poetry, and reader stories, and was "a major source of literature by and for African-Americans" during this time period. <sup id="cite_ref-Recovering_19th-Century_American_Women_Writers_2015_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Recovering_19th-Century_American_Women_Writers_2015-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The paper published <a href="/wiki/Julia_C._Collins" title="Julia C. Collins">Julia C. Collins</a>' novel as 31 serialized chapters in 1865, as well as many of her essays.<sup id="cite_ref-AAR_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AAR-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It also printed works by <a href="/wiki/Frances_Ellen_Watkins_Harper" title="Frances Ellen Watkins Harper">Frances Ellen Watkins Harper</a> and <a href="/wiki/James_W._C._Pennington" title="James W. C. Pennington">James W. C. Pennington</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Internet_Archive_2020_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Internet_Archive_2020-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-cohen_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cohen-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Christian_Recorder&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>The Christian Recorder</i> was originally a weekly paper called the <i><a href="/wiki/Mystery_(newspaper)" title="Mystery (newspaper)">Mystery</a></i>, later <i>The Christian Herald</i>, started by Rev. Augustus R. Green in <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh,_Pennsylvania" class="mw-redirect" title="Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania">Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CR16_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CR16-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-AAR_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AAR-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The name was changed to <i>The Christian Recorder</i> in 1852 under the editorship of Rev. M. M. Clark, with approval of the AME Church General Conference. It published <a href="/wiki/Family_reunification_ads_after_emancipation" title="Family reunification ads after emancipation">ads to reunite black families</a> following <a href="/wiki/Emancipation" title="Emancipation">emancipation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was published by the AME Church Book Concern in <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania" class="mw-redirect" title="Philadelphia, Pennsylvania">Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</a>, a city that became a publishing center.<sup id="cite_ref-CR16_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CR16-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The paper covered all geographic areas of the AME Church, but regional versions also developed, including the <i>Southern Christian Recorder and</i> the <i>Western Christian Recorder</i>. These two were later merged to create the <i>Southwestern Christian Recorder.</i> </p><p>In 1952 after the AME Church Book Concern was dissolved, the paper's headquarters moved to <a href="/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee" title="Nashville, Tennessee">Nashville, Tennessee</a>. In 1960 the <i>Southwestern Christian Recorder</i> and <i>The Christian Recorder</i> combined to form <i>The AME Christian Recorder</i>. In 1984, the paper reverted to using the original name <i>The Christian Recorder</i>. Today, the paper is a member of the Associated Church Press, the Religion Communicators Council, and the National Newspaper Publishers Association.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Christian_Recorder&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/A.M.E._Church_Review" title="A.M.E. Church Review">A.M.E. 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